Republican Party of Armenia

The Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) is a national conservative political party in Armenia, founded on 2 April 1990 in the capital of Yerevan after the fall of the Soviet Union. The party's membership was dominated by government officials, civil servants, and businesspeople who relied on the government to maintain their power, and the RPA was a typical post-Soviet "party of power". In 2016, the party held 70/131 seats in the government under President Serzh Sargsyan, and it relied on its big tent views to gather supporters from across the country.